Jean-Louis Scaringella, (born 16 July 1948, in Grenoble, Isère, France) is a graduate of the HEC Paris and Harvard Business School. In November 1999 he became the Dean of, and Professor of International Business at, the European School of Management ESCP-EAP. He is currently Deputy Director General of the CCIP, responsible for Research, Forecasting and Innovation. As CEO of the ESCP-EAP, he facilitated the merger of it, and HEC jeunes filles; two prestigious French 'Grandes Ecoles' - the new group is an institution dedicated to world business studies. Scaringella is also a board member of the EFMD (European Foundation for Management Development), a board member of the Diplomatic and Strategic Studies Centre (CEDS), a member of the editorial board of the European Management Journal and the Expansion Management Review, an associate professor at the Panthéon-Assas University, and a Defence Advisor to the Secretary General of National Defence. Degrees Doctorate in Economics Sorbonne, Paris (1970) Harvard Business School (1972) Doctorate in Law. Career 1970 - 1978: Professor of Finance at the École des Hautes Études Commerciales; 1978 - 1983: Director of the Institut Supérieur des affaires (HEC MBA); 1983 - 1984: Deputy Director of Education of the Chamber of Commerce and Industry of Paris (CCIP); 1984 - 1989: Director of Communications of the CCIP; 1989 - 1992: Director of the École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC); 1993 - 1999: Director General, Centre for Development Affairs; 1999 - 2006: Director General of ESCP-EAP (Paris, London, Madrid, Berlin, Turin); Since 2006: Deputy Director General of the CCIP. Publications The Defence Industries in Europe - Economica 1998 RH : les meilleures pratiques des entreprises du Cac 40 - Editions d'Organisation 2003 L'Art du management de l'information (The Art of Information Management) - (en coll., 2007) L'art de la dirigeance (en coll., 2007) Stratégies d’Internationalisation Dunod 1997 Handbook of Top Management Teams (editor) - Palgrave Macmillan 2010 Decorations Officer of the Legion of Honor; Commandeur de l' ordre national du Mérite (Commander of the National Order of Merit); Commandeur des Palmes académiques (Commander of the Academic Palms); Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany (Officer of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany); Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts; Commandeur de l'Ordre du Mérite Culturel de la Bolivie (Commander of the Order of Cultural Merit of Bolivia); Officier de l'Ordre National du Mérite du Sénégal (Officer